Band: Freitod
Title: Nebel Der Erinnerungen
Label: Ván Records
Distribution: Candelight Records
Release date: 12/03/2010
Review: CD

The great Swiss formation Freitod returns with Nebel Der Erinnerungen (‘fog of memories’), an epic that lasts for about forty eight minutes.
The album goes on in the vein of the former material (the 2005-release To Rape The Souls Of God, by the way, used to be one of the strongest releases from Switzerland since the beginning of this millennium).
Nebel… brings a rather primitive and raw form of epic, slightly Pagan-influenced underground Black Metal with lots of acoustic or semi-acoustic parts, a mainly mid-tempo-oriented rhythm, a grim, nightly approach and a nice combination of darkening melodies, and majestic spheres that pay tribute to the Old School.
From time to time, Freitod speed up with a malicious, flaming spirit, and sometimes they slow down into a funereal Doom-ish tempo. The almost Nordic sound covers these hymns with an almost mystic obscurity and the desolation gives a slightly suicidal atmosphere.
Dark supremacy!

89/100

Ivan Tibos.